ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Updating your news feed...
NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. Published by Africa’s international award-winning journalist, Mr. Isaac Umunna, NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s first truly professional online daily newspaper. It is published from Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and media hub, and has a provision for occasional special print editions. Thanks to our vast network of sources and dedicated team of professional journalists and contributors spread across Nigeria and overseas, NEWS EXPRESS has become synonymous with newsbreaks and exclusive stories from around the world.
Alhaji Amadu Kurfi
A former executive secretary of the defunct Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO) in the Second Republic, Alhaji Amadu Kurfi, is dead.
He died at the Katsina Federal Teaching Hospital on Wednesday at the age of 93.
He was born in 1931 and until his death, held the ?Maradin Katsina? traditional title in the Katsina Emirate.
Late Kurfi was a senior civil servant at the federal level for many years.
He was the deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Defence when the 1966 coup took place.
He was also a permanent secretary in the Office of the Head of Service.
Kurfi was the first executive secretary of electoral umpire FEDECO that organised the election which brought in Alhaji Shehu Shagari as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1979. (Daily Trust)
.webp&w=256&q=75)
.webp&w=256&q=75)
